By Luigi Pirandello
Premio Nobel nel 1934, tradotto in tutto il mondo, Pirandello è autore capitale della letteratura, non solo italiana, del Novecento, di cui ha rispecchiato, in modo tormentato e geniale, evoluzione e crisi. In una vasta produzione fatta di novelle, romanzi, opere teatrali, Pirandello si presenta come il creatore di un mondo di inesauribile vigore fantastico e di sorprendente modernità. Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore, scritta nel 1921, è l'opera teatrale di Pirandello più innovativa e rappresentata in Italia e all'estero.
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Costello, Miss [fl. 1780], actress. A Miss Costello acted an unspecified role in a single special performance of A School for Ladies at the Haymarket on 5 April 1780. Perhaps she was the Miss Costello who played minor roles at Bristol in 1775. Costello, Mary Anne. See CANNING, MRS GEORGE. Costelloro. See COSTELLOW, THOMAS. Costellow. See also CASTELLE, CASTELLO, COSTELLO, and COSTOLLO. Costellow, Thomas [fl. ], composer, singer, teacher. Thomas Costellow was active in many areas of late eighteenth-century musical life in London but evidently earned little distinction in any.
On 7 September 1691 Courteville was appointed the first organist of St James, Westminster (now Piccadilly), at £20 annually. His chief contribution to music, however, was as a composer. His works included six sonatas for two flutes (c. 1690), a popular hymn tune entitled St James's, and a good number of light songs, many of which are listed in the British Museum Catalogue of Printed Music. Among his songs were several for plays: "Virtumnus, Flora, you that bless" in 3 Don Quixote, "To Convent streams" in A Duke and No Duke, "A Lass there lives upon the green" in Oroonoko, "The Charms of bright Beauty'' in Aureng-Zebe, and "The Prerogatives of Love'' in The Female Vertuosos.
Evidently it was also his last, unless he took his talents to some dark corner of the provinces. Cox, Mr [fl. 1761], actor. On 13 October 1761 the company at Covent Garden Theatre presented as an afterpiece The Fair, A Grotesque Pantomime Entertainment in which various activities, performers, and spectators of a typical day at one of the popular fairsequilibrists, pantomimes, gingerbread sellers, recruiting officers, puppet showswere shown. Various actors and dancers were named in the bills. A Mr Cox, who was not thus cited, was nevertheless present, in an unusual role, as the Covent Garden manuscript account book at the Folger Library shows.